Editing Critical discourse analysis (section)

==Background==
Critical discourse analysis emerged from 'critical linguistics' developed at the [[University of East Anglia]] by [[Roger Fowler]] and fellow scholars in the 1970s, and the terms are now often interchangeable.<ref>Some still insist on distinctions between the two terms, although they are relatively minor</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Language and Control |last=Fowler |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Fowler |author2=[[Bob Hodge (linguist)|Bob Hodge]], [[Gunther Kress]], [[Tony Trew]] |publisher=Routledge |year=1979 |isbn=978-0-7100-0288-4 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/languagecontrol0000unse }}</ref> Research in the field of [[sociolinguistics]] was paying little attention to social hierarchy and power.<ref>Wodak, R. (2001) "What CDA is about" In: Wodak, Ruth & Meyer, Michael (eds.) (2001) ''Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis.'' London: Sage. p. 5</ref> CDA was first developed by the [[Lancaster University|Lancaster]] school of linguists of which [[Norman Fairclough]] was the most prominent figure. [[Ruth Wodak]] has also made a major contribution to this field of study.

In addition to [[Linguistics|linguistic]] theory, the approach draws from social theory, [[critical theory]] and contributions from [[Karl Marx]], [[Antonio Gramsci]], [[Louis Althusser]], [[Jürgen Habermas]], [[Michel Foucault]] and [[Pierre Bourdieu]]—in order to examine ideologies and power relations involved in discourse. Language connects with the social through being the primary domain of [[ideology]], and through being both a site of, and a stake in, struggles for power.<ref name=Fairclough1/> Ideology has been called the basis of the social representations of groups, and, in psychological versions of CDA developed by [[Teun A. van Dijk]] and Ruth Wodak, there is assumed to be a sociocognitive interface between [[social structure]]s and discourse structures.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Ideology: A Multidisciplinary Approach |last=van Dijk |first=Teun Adrianus |author-link=Teun A. van Dijk |publisher=Sage Publications |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-7619-5654-9}}</ref> The historical dimension in critical discourse studies also plays an important role.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis |last=Wodak |first=Ruth |author-link=Ruth Wodak |author2=Michael Meyer |publisher=Sage Publications |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-7619-6154-3}}</ref>